Re: sort (coreutils) bug

[Eric Blake]

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[bug-coreutils would probably have been a better list, as documented in
'sort --help']

According to address@hidden on 1/11/2008 7:07 AM:
| // steps to reproduce:
| $ sort --key=4 tmp4
|
| // and column 4 is not sorted ("chr11", "chr1" and back "chr11") but
| it seems like it was sorted
| // by concatenated column 4 and 5. All fields are separated by spaces.

Not a bug.  By itself, --key=4 means treat field 4 to the end of the line
as a key.  You probably wanted --key=4,4, which specifies both the start
and end of the key as belonging to field 4.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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